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“Holiday Punch” — The Official Site of Chef Georgia Pellegrini | Food, Travel, Lifestyle, Hunting and Redefining Slow Food. Hudson Valley, New York. December 23, 2009 But do you really need a holiday as an excuse to make a good punch? My brother has been making this for years. It’s quite good. He makes it strong but you can make a mild version. In addition to white wine and rum (not the expensive kind), you’ll need citrus. Which you let macerate in the rum and wine. Now frozen lemonade. And frozen limeade. A little ginger ale… A little club soda. He measured his out because he’s a very precise kind of guy. And then frozen strawberries which get soft and float along with the citrus.

And then of course a little taste test is in order. Holiday punch…or Tuesday punch, whenever you’re in the mood. Ingredients 1 bottle rum 1 bottle white wine 3 cups club soda 2 cups ginger ale Citrus fruit, sliced 1 container frozen lemonade 1 container frozen limeade 3 cups frozen strawberries Ice Instructions Place all ingredients in a large punch bowl and stir to mix. Web’s Best: Whiskey Drinks. Unlike The Most Interesting Man in the World, we almost always drink beer. When we don’t, however, our go to liquor is whiskey. What can we say, bourbon is neat (little whiskey humor).

While we usually just pour a few fingers and relax, sometimes we like to get a tad more creative. Here are The Web’s Best Whiskey Drinks: Hot Blooded Besides sounding like the most badass fruit, blood oranges are freakin’ delicious! PDT’s Bacon Old Fashioned If PDT isn’t a cab ride away from where you live, we highly recommend making their Bacon Old Fashioned in the comfort of your own home. Double Chocolate Bourbon Egg Cream If we’d been around for the Brooklyn egg cream craze, we’d have added a little topping from our flask at the corner pop shop as well. Penicillin Just like the name suggests, this drink is good for what ails you (if what ails you is being stone-cold sober). Smoke Signals Want to impress some guests? The Fourth Down Whiskey Cocktail Greenwich Sour Milk Punch. How to Make Milk That'll Get You Hammered. 5 Sites Every Beginning Homebrewer Must Visit | mikesbrewreview.com. 5 Sites Every Beginning Homebrewer Must Visit Posted on May 11, 2010 by mike Over the course of my short brewing career thus far I have found some sources on the internet that I’ve found to help me grow as a brewer.

I thought I would compile a short list of 5 sites I visit on a regular basis that new or novice homebrewers may or may not know about. As always, I’d love to hear if there are any sites that you recommend for a new or novice brewer. Homebrew Talk Forum Boards Homebrew Talk is a great place to get information when you get stuck. The only drawbacks is you may ask a question, and in classic homebrewer fashion, everyone has an opinion or a technique they use. The Brewing Network The Brewing Network has a series of podcasts that can take brewing understanding to the next level.

Beer Calculus Beer Calculus is a free recipe building tool for homebrewers. Zymurgy Free Downloads and AHA Website Zymurgy is a magazine that comes with a membership to the American Homebrewers Association. How to Make Wine From Common Household Items. Article by Acidic on 12/24/2000. A Better Living Through Chemistry article on everyone's favorite subject: Alcohol! WARNING: This article is intended for mature readers only. Before attempting this or any other Better Living Through Chemistry article, read up on the subject in question and make sure what you are doing is SAFE and LEGAL.

Though I drank this concoction, NOTHING written about here should be considered 100% safe. Muahahahahaha!!!! Science Can Be FUN! I know what some of you are thinking: "ANOTHER #$^#ing EDUCATIONAL ARTICLE! Today's Lesson: How to Make Wine Out of Common Household Items. You read that correctly! Step 1: Gather the Ingredients. You're probably wondering what exactly we consider "household items" in this article. The materials and ingredients we used. 1) 3 cans of 100% frozen grape juice (I use Welch's 100% grape juice concentrate). 2) 1/2 cup of sugar. 3) A 1 gallon container. 4) Balloons. 5) Water. 6) A pin. 7) Magic Fairy Dust - AKA yeast.

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Light, easy-drinking and largely tasteless lagers were the American beer du jour—unless, of course, you bought imported beers. Since then, American craft brewers have changed the landscape completely. Today there are over 1500 craft breweries in the United States, many of which make a dizzying variety of beer styles packed with big, intense flavors. American beer culture is now one of the most diverse on the planet.

Brewers engineered this craft revolution by embracing the best and most flavorful ingredients they could find. Hops added early in the beer's boiling stage have most of their flavor and aroma boiled off, but contribute to beer's signature bitterness. While well-selected hops are nothing new, strains grown in the Pacific Northwest carry big flavor and pungent aromas. Cascade Cascade is the hop strain that put American beer culture on the map. Citra Centennial. 7 Videogame Cocktail Recipes From The Drunken Moogle. See more videogame recipes at The Drunken Moogle.

And submit your own drink recipe to the Dorkly Facebook page for consideration! Metroid (Metroid Cocktail) Ingredients:1/2 shot Bacardi Big Apple Rum1/2 shot Coconut Rum1/2 glass Kiwi Strawberry Minute Maid (or Kool-Aid)A little less than 1/2 a glass Sprite3 Strawberries Directions: Shake the two rums and Kiwi Strawberry Minute Maid and pour into a lowball glass. Add the Sprite for a bit of flavor and carbonation. Drop in three strawberries as a garnish. Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog shot) Ingredients:1 part grenadine2 parts Menthomint Schnapps4 parts Blue Curacao Directions: Pour in the grenadine first. Fat Man (Fallout 3 Cocktail) Ingredients:3/4 shot Spiced Rum1/4 shot Cinnamon Whiskey1 shot Vanilla Vodka6 shots Dr. Directions: Pour the Dr. The Dashing Prince (Katamari Damacy Shot) Directions: Mix the Blue Curacao and grenadine and divide into the bottom of 6 shot glasses.

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